Can an RTO still enrol new students in HLT43512?

For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments are not permitted today, unless ASQA has approved otherwise — for your organisation, for a class of RTOs, or for all RTOs. The one-year point this rule counts from — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register — fell earlier, on 6 August 2016. That date is arithmetic, not a day on which this instrument prohibited anything: s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355) commenced on 1 July 2025 and imposes nothing before then. RTOs registered by VRQA in Victoria or by the TAC in Western Australia are not covered by it.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in HLT43512?

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

HLT43512 Certificate IV in Optical Dispensing

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

HLT43512Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Optical Dispensing
not equivalent
HLT47815Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Optical Dispensing
not equivalent
HLT47825CurrentCertificate IV in Optical Dispensing

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

HLT43507HLT43512not equivalent6 May 2012
Updated in V5 - Changes to the number of core and elective units to comply with NQC packaging rules. Updated core WHS units.
HLT43512HLT47815not equivalent5 August 2015
Change to packaging rules. Significant changes to core units. Minimum work requirement of 100 hours.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for HLT43512 and for its training package HLT07 (release 5.1), with the name and date the register publishes for each file. We link them; we have not read them, and nothing on this page is taken from their contents.

HLT43512_R1.docxHLT43512 release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024
HLT43512_R1.pdfHLT43512 release 1 · product document · published 20 July 2012

Is HLT43512 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether HLT43512 sits on your own scope today, or what else on that scope has moved without anyone noticing. Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.

Whether a supersession requires anything of you, and what, sits with you and your regulator. This page maps what the register records; it does not make that judgement. If the difference between an equivalent and a non-equivalent replacement is the question, we wrote it up in equivalent vs not equivalent.

What HLT43512 is made of

training.gov.au lists 24 units for HLT43512. It does not mark them core or elective: the unit grid records N/A for every one of them. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. What it takes to complete the product is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Units listed 24 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
BSBCUS301B	Deliver and monitor a service to customers	`N/A`	not current
BSBWOR301B	Organise personal work priorities and development	`N/A`	not current
BSBWOR401A	Establish effective workplace relationships	`N/A`	not current
BSBWOR402A	Promote team effectiveness	`N/A`	not current
CHCCS311C	Deliver and monitor services to clients	`N/A`	not current
CHCORG607C	Manage workplace issues	`N/A`	not current
HLTCOM301C	Provide specific information to clients	`N/A`	not current
HLTCOM405D	Administer a practice	`N/A`	not current
HLTCOM503D	Manage a practice	`N/A`	not current
HLTCSD306D	Respond effectively to behaviours of concern	`N/A`	not current
HLTHIR301C	Communicate and work effectively in health	`N/A`	not current
HLTHIR403C	Work effectively with culturally diverse clients and co-workers	`N/A`	not current
HLTHIR404D	Work effectively with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people	`N/A`	not current
HLTHIR505D	Provide leadership in promoting effective work practices in health	`N/A`	not current
HLTIN301C	Comply with infection control policies and procedures	`N/A`	not current
HLTOPD401C	Work effectively in the ophthalmic industry	`N/A`	not current
HLTOPD402C	Perform edging and fitting	`N/A`	not current
HLTOPD403C	Dispense optical appliances and services	`N/A`	not current
HLTOPD404C	Dispense atypical prescriptions	`N/A`	not current
HLTOPD405C	Market and promote optical products and services	`N/A`	not current
HLTOPD407C	Perform workshop skills and place orders	`N/A`	not current
HLTWHS300A	Contribute to WHS processes	`N/A`	not current
HLTWHS401A	Maintain workplace WHS processes	`N/A`	not current
SIRXSLS001A	Sell products and services	`N/A`	not current

The register publishes this unit grid without a core or elective flag, so this page does not split it into core and elective. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 14 October 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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